Basic laser creation tutorial by Uncle_Alik
DO NOT POST COMMENTS HERE - I used them to write description to this!!! If you want to say something - or ask - use comments to the main save!
Comments
-
Uncle_Alik 24th May 2011
So hello everyone. This is my first tutorial on creating basic lasers. So, let us begin. Lasers - both in PT and in real life - are a trace of photons, so we will use PHOT here. To start off, we need to create a source of the phot. The easiest is the CLNE. To add photons to the cloner just place the PHOT close or over the CLNE. (1) You will see that it will start producing photons randomly in one of eight directions. Hardly a laser you've seen in other's creations, right? So, laser ray must be emitted in one direction as a straight beam, so let us focus it. The best way is to use the VOID, that will remove particles we don't want our laser to create. (2) It is not recommended to use other solids because PHOT will bounce from them and will form something like (2 bad). But we still have two big problems - our laser is unstable and creates photons randomly with delays (which can take even up to 4 sec.), and it cannot be controlled by user. For last point, we can make this (2 con), but it is also not as good and useful as thing we are going to make. There is another particle that can emit PHOT - the PCLN. To use it, create it and two wires of PSCN and NSCN close to it. Note that thay MUST NOT transfer spark to each other. After that, spark PSCN to turn cloner on, and plase PHOT near or over it. The cloner will start to emit photons in ALL eight directions in straight beams. (3) Also you can create PCN close to each other to create more PHOT at a time. (4) Now we need to remove the unwanted beams of PHOT as we have did it before with CLNE. (5) (or (6) for a big beam)). Note that you can use solids for some effects (7) ( I will cover that in later tutorials). So, I hope you will make use of this tutorial and see the others!